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Few years ago parents fled the Ceaușescu regime in Romania. Teodora Ana Mihai spends several months in the life of one such family where the kids are being left behind because of economic migration, as hundreds of thousands of citizens … Continue reading →

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The Jewish Museum of New York her latest core exhibition reveals a distance from Judaism indistinguishable from disregard, embarrassment, and disdain. Menachem Wecker’s essay on Scenes from the Collection, the latest permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum of New York, talks about the city’s venerable 115-year-old Jewish Museum. Its collection of about 30,000 objects makes […]

Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog: https://youtu.be/gQOBDCSQKbw This 10 April 2019 video says about itself: First-Ever Black Hole Image Released The Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. From USA Today today: It’s our first glimpse of one of the weirdest spectacles in…

Originally posted on Purplerays: ‘Tis hard for man to rouse his spirit up–It is the human creative agony,Though but to hold the heart an empty cup,Or tighten on the team the rigid rein.Many will rather lie among the slainThan creep through narrow ways the light to gain–Than wake the will, and be born bitterly. But…

Originally posted on Victors' Corner: WHAT TOLERANCE REALLY MEANS By Victor Uyanwanne 13/03/2015 I have always been interested in learning new words and I have usually made conscious effort towards achieving that aim. I remember way back in school when we were much younger when we used to keep “New Words and Meaning” notebooks as…

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The great museums of the 18th and 19th centuries — the British Museum in London (1753), the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg (1764), the Louvre in Paris (1792), the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (1891), and many others — were encyclopedic in scope and ambition. Born, in part, of an imperial impulse, they aimed to demonstrate […]

Originally posted on A Window Of Wisdom: “When we are unable to face the truth of our own feelings, we will vent our emotional pain upon anyone that goes against what we are trying to control, due to the exhaustion of representing our self as the truth, we wish we could be.” True freedom can…

Originally posted on Chai & Biscuits: I always wonder, what is outside the window? I can’t hear anything because the window screen filters any noise of the living from inside out and outside in. The unanswered screams, now I know them. In the distance I can see the clouds being populated and polluted with the smoke which…